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In the organizer's words:

The Heddernheim labor education camp and the judicial investigations against the camp staff after 1945

The "Heddernheim labour education camp", located in the north of Frankfurt, was approved by decree of the Reich Main Security Office on October 30, 1941 and opened on April 1, 1942.
More than 10,000 prisoners were imprisoned in the AEL run by the Frankfurt Gestapo until the end of the war. Everyday life in the camp was characterized by malnutrition, hard work, severe abuse and open executions. Many of the inmates died in Heddernheim or were murdered after being transported to concentration and extermination camps in the east.

The former camp leader, SS-Untersturmführer Hans Tauber, was sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison in 1951. He was known among the prisoners for his particular cruelty. The guards, in turn, consisted of around 70 men, most of whom were on emergency duty. They were responsible for the daily abuse in the camp and carried out the executions. Nevertheless, there were few legal consequences after the end of the war.

The lecture is a workshop report which, on the one hand, is dedicated to the history of AEL Heddernheim and, on the other hand, inquires into the judicial investigations against the camp personnel after 1945. It becomes clear that this is a topic that has received little attention in research to date and is also hardly known in Frankfurt's urban society.

Lisa Schrimpf, MA, is doing her doctorate at the Frankfurt Chair for Research into the History and Impact of the Holocaust on the Heddernheim labor education camp and the judicial investigations against camp personnel after 1945. She is currently receiving a doctoral scholarship from the Ökohaus Frankfurt Foundation to carry out her project.

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Location

Club Voltaire e. V. Kleine Hochstraße 5 60313 Frankfurt am Main

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